Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think for the President to set a hard goal would add a lot of focus to the effort that is underway."

"What concerns me is that that passion and that militancy and that determination evaporates as soon as you are talking about benefits that go out to wealthy folks and to corporations through the Tax Co..."

"Which we have not done and we need to do."

"I think we could get a lot done on the debt and the deficit if it was not more important to protect the carried interest loophole, to protect the big oil subsidies, and to protect offshoring in the Ca..."